Word: pedophilia
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...church that preaches the impermissibility of so many forms of consensual, adult sex simultaneously tolerate, ignore or cover up the sexual abuse of children by its own priests? Pedophilia is not a failing; it is not some imperfect but victimless expression of sexuality among consenting adults. It is a crime. To my mind, the violation of a child's innocence, the betrayal of a priestly trust, the rape of a minor's very body provide about as good a definition of evil as one can find. Yet a church that regularly condemns and judges so many of its congregants...
...message of the intensely personal advocacy is to stay the hell away from her for fear of the furious beast that seethes within. It’s hard to come up with an equally distasteful association of the sublime and the grotesque; the closest analogue would be if anti-pedophilia activism were centered on Father?...
...molested by their priest, a quiet deal that typifies how these cases are handled in the U.S. Less common is the very public court battle of John Geoghan, a priest who has so far cost the Archdiocese of Boston more than $10 million to settle just some of the pedophilia suits he faces. A Boston Globe investigation revealed last week that as many as 70 priests in Boston came to the attention of church officials there in sex-abuse allegations--a potentially massive pool of victims who could bring suits. "The financial impact of these cases is severe," says Mark...
...criticism surrounding Todd Solondz’s equally loved and hated film Happiness (1998), was his employment of fringe subject matter which included rape, pedophilia, murder and masturbation, and of characters whose misery and deplorableness are put on display for the viewing public’s pleasure and disgust. With Solondz’s latest effort Storytelling, the indie director is more concerned with responding to that reproach with his own lashes and cheeky irony, rather than building upon his incisive look at suburbia in Happiness. Instead of investing time and injecting complexity into his characters as in past works...
...VATICAN CITY Keeping It Quiet The Vatican released an unannounced papal directive on pedophile priests, published in Latin in the 2001 Acts of the Apostolic See. The guidelines specify that Catholic clergy should report priests suspected of pedophilia to the Vatican, where priests would hear the case in secrecy. There is no instruction to inform police...